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Two WSJ staffers win non-traditional story contest

Almar Latour, executive editor of The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones, sent out the following announcement:

The Wall Street Journal is pleased to announce the winners of our newly launched global newsroom innovation contest, TBD at WSJ:  In first place is Jason Bellini, a Senior Producer on the New York Video Desk for his project, Global Scavenger Hunt. And in second place is Neal Boudette, Global Automotive Correspondent and a 15-year Journal veteran for his project, In a Nutshell.

Both winners will get a cash prize and see their ideas realized on WSJ.com this Spring.

Part ideas pipeline, part creativity contest, TBD at WSJ challenges Journal staffers across the globe to submit a project based around theme of storytelling.

For the first TBD contest, we asked our newsroom for ideas to tell stories in a non-traditional way.  The prompt yielded responses from every corner of our global newsroom – from the Middle East to Europe to Asia to the U.S.; from reporters, editors, designers and coders.

Four of those respondents were chosen to move on to the next round as finalists —  Jason Bellini, Miriam Gottfried, Martin Burch and Neal Boudette — where they presented their projects, live, to a panel of WSJ editors.

Organized by special projects editor Francesca Donner, TBD at WSJ will launch new rounds soon, each posing a different digital or innovation challenge to the newsroom.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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